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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Joe Pagnelli

Support worker reveals how a ‘pearly pimple’ turned out to be aggressive skin cancer

A support worker who has never sunbathed fears she will eventually lose most of her face to skin cancer after having aggressive tumours removed from beneath her eye and her cheek — but he adoring husband still insists she is “absolutely beautiful.”

Keen to stress that “not just sun worshippers” can get skin cancer, Debbie Lindley, 49, was seeing a GP about a rash on her right foot in March 2020, when she mentioned in passing a “pearl-like” lump her daughter had noticed under her right eye – which she was advised to have tested.

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